Survivor in death - J.D. Robb (In Death #20)

“Murder was always smutty, and had been since the first fist had smashed a stone into the first human skull. But the murder, bloody and brutal, of an entire family in their own home, in their own beds, was a different form of evil.”

When Eve Dallas is called to a multiple homicide at the Swisher family home, she discovers a blood-bath. The killers breached an elaborate security system and slashed the throat of each victim while they slept and were in and out of the house in less than ten minutes. But they did make one mistake. They left a survivor...

While her parents, brother, and best friend lay in their beds, oblivious to the danger, nine-year-old Nixie Swisher was in the kitchen and saw far too much.